Summer officially starts this Sunday. According to eye doctors, here are five tips for buying a good pair of sunglasses . . .

Make sure they have 100% U.V. protection.

U.V. rays are radiation from the sun that can make you develop cataracts.
A survey last year found less than half of us check the U.V. sticker on sunglasses before we buy them.
So check the tag the next time you buy a cheap pair at a gas station.
Some of those only block about 40% of U.V. rays.

Big sunglasses are better, because they keep more of the U.V. rays out. Ideally they should be oversized, and wrap around your face.

The color of the lenses doesn’t matter, and neither does how dark they are. Lighter lenses can still block all of the U.V. rays.

It’s clear that no matter how many stories we hear about the dangers of texting and driving, we’re not going to stop. But if ANY story was going to change your behavior, it might be this one.

Christina Jahnz of Elizabeth, Colorado dropped her daughter off at school last Wednesday and was running late to a meeting. So as she drove there, she tried to text that she was running late.

But when she looked down to send it, she crashed into a guardrail. And somehow, that guardrail plowed through the front of her car, went through her thigh, and impaled her IN THE BUTT.

The paramedics had to saw off the guardrail and take her to the hospital with it still stuck inside of her.

She had emergency surgery where the doctors removed the guardrail and gave her tons of stitches. Amazingly, she survived . . . she says the doctors told her if it had gone in just a little bit the other way, she would’ve died.